JEFF CABLE PHOTOGRAPHY Wednesday April 2, 2025
In a recent blog post that he admits is “long overdue,” photographer and educator Jeff Cable goes over 10 things you DO NOT want to do with a digital camera—insights, he writes, that were 20 years in the making. Topping his list: Do not change lenses with your camera upside down! “Doing this allows any dust in the air to fall into the camera and create nasty dust spots on your images,” he notes. Also, do not delete images in your camera. “It can cause corruption in your memory card and you can lose images. You can format the card in your camera, but don't delete individual images,” he advises.
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It’s Nice That Wednesday April 2, 2025
In her latest photo book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections, set to be published in April by Gost Books, photographer Mandy Barker explores the effects of the fast fashion industry on the climate, with a delicate typology of images of discarded clothing fragments found on the coast of the UK. Inspired by the work of Victorian botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins, Barker took fabric forms through the cyanotype process, creating a series of photogram prints in the process’ idiosyncratic Prussian blue. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Wednesday April 2, 2025
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Austria’s state-funded contemporary photography gallery, is moving into a refurbished 1950s building in a historic former military arsenal in Vienna offering 1,000 square meters of space for a cafe, education rooms, offices, and a gallery with moveable walls allowing for large group shows and smaller projects. The new venue opens with an exhibition devoted to Magnum photographers Susan Meiselas, Bieke Depoorter, and Rafa Milach, digging into their image archives and considering how we approach such collections, notes the British Journal of Photography.
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Smithsonian Wednesday April 2, 2025
"It’s like a horror scene out of some crazy science fiction movie,” says Quentin Nardi, Smithsonian magazine’s chief photography editor, describing the grand-prize winner of the publication’s 22nd annual photo contest—Takuya Ishiguro’s shot of praying mantises snacking on each other. Ishiguro spotted the mantises along a roadside in his Japanese hometown; he credits the low angle of his shot and the ground’s rough texture with supersizing the drama. “It adds dimension, making the subject seem more real and tangible,” he says.
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